Wow! What happened to the forum speed? It's running at normal speed again using Win. XP / IE-8. Did we have to wait until Friday the 13th to get it fixed? lol
huwyngr wrote:
You must think me an antique -- in which case you would be right -- but I don't do facebook or twitter or whatever involves "friending" and although I see a category for that here I've no idea what it does!
- Hugh I thought I was the only one that didn't do facebook & twitter. I don't even text, can't see the keyboard and my fingers are not fast enough to text. I guess we are antique! lol
- Hammer_Bro, I'm still in the building, I never left. 
ProTruckDriver wrote:Wow! What happened to the forum speed? It's running at normal speed again using Win. XP / IE-8. Did we have to wait until Friday the 13th to get it fixed? lol
huwyngr wrote:
You must think me an antique -- in which case you would be right -- but I don't do facebook or twitter or whatever involves "friending" and although I see a category for that here I've no idea what it does!
- Hugh I thought I was the only one that didn't do facebook & twitter. I don't even text, can't see the keyboard and my fingers are not fast enough to text. I guess we are antique! lol
- Hammer_Bro, I'm still in the building, I never left.
Either of you remember having to give the operator [always a female] the number of the phone you wanted to be connected to? Or how about having to watch out for the fresh 'road apples' left by the milk delivery man's horse? Or having to listen to the 'ring' of the phone to determine of the call was for your house and not another home on your 'party line'? Antiques are things that were old when I first started using them. 
dickevans wrote:Either of you remember having to give the operator [always a female] the number of the phone you wanted to be connected to? Or having to listen to the 'ring' of the phone to determine of the call was for your house and not another home on your 'party line'?
"Party line" (lol) I remember those day's. I remember our 1st phone number: MA-5330. Those were "The Good Old Days" 
ProTruckDriver wrote:dickevans wrote:Either of you remember having to give the operator [always a female] the number of the phone you wanted to be connected to? Or having to listen to the 'ring' of the phone to determine of the call was for your house and not another home on your 'party line'?"Party line" (lol) I remember those day's. I remember our 1st phone number: MA-5330. Those were "The Good Old Days"
Go back a few moore years ours was ARDMORE 4646 which was updated to ARD 4646 when they changed out the old phone for a rotary dial model.
huwyngr wrote:dickevans wrote:
Either of you remember having to give the operator [always a female] the number of the phone you wanted to be connected to?
[ ... ]
I remember one of my distinguished and very conservative research colleagues in the UK being visited by a Texan who was boasting about the wonderful new phone system they had and how by dialing 17 digits you could reach any phone in the USA!
He quietly replied "Oh I like our system where I pick up the phone and when Mabel replies I say "Could you get my wife on the phone, please?" and she replies "Sure John, I think she's round at Elizabeth's place this morning for coffee so I'll call there" and before you know it I'm talking with my wife ...... "
That tops my memory
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